Sokolov, D. A. Renaissance texts, medieval subjectivities : rethinking Petrarchan desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare

Folger bibliographic ID: 351632
Folger call number: PR428.S45 S65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500251

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction: Vernacular memories of English Petrarchism -- The measure of meed: symbolic economies in Langland, Wyatt, and Spenser -- Chaucerian melancholy in Renaissance England: Surrey's songes and sonnets and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella -- Sovereign love, medieval and early modern: the arts of marriage in the Casket sonnets and the Kingis quair -- Petrarchan afterlives of erotic legality: love and law in Lydgate, Daniel, and Drayton -- Medieval pathologies of affect: reading Hoccleve and Henryson in Shakespeare's sonnets -- Conclusion: The "English straine" of Renaissance petrarchism: poetry, genealogy, hermeneutics

Extended title: Renaissance texts, medieval subjectivities : rethinking Petrarchan desire from Wyatt to Shakespeare / Danila Sokolov

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 English literature Self (Philosophy) in literature Subjectivity in literature Renaissance Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Great Britain

author: Sokolov, D. A. (Danila Alekseevich)
subject: Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374